THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS.

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Page 22 ... and extending some little distance on its south bank at Santarem. On the
northern bank of the Orinooko are the Llanos, or flat open plains, partly flooded in
the rainy season; but much of the interior of Venezuela appears to be forest
country.

Page 61 form an unbroken chain uniting North and South America, in a line, parallel to the
great Central American isthmus; yet instead of exhibiting an intermixture of the
productions of Florida and Venezuela, they differ widely from both these
countries ...

Page 65 Considering how closely the islands approach the continent in €everal places—
Florida, Yucatan, and Venezuela—this amount of speciality in such locomotive
creatures as birds, is probably unexampled in any other part of the globe. The
most ...

Page 78 At one time it perhaps extended southward so as to unite Hayti with northern Venezuela, while Panama and Costa Rica were sunk beneath the Pacific. At this
time the Lesser Antilles had no existence. The only large island of whose
geology ...

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Page 159 - regions, not only now but as far back as we can clearly trace them in the past; and, secondly, of the existing radical diversity of the Australian region from the rest of the Eastern Hemisphere. Owing to the much greater extent of the old

Page 61 - to the great Central American isthmus; yet instead of exhibiting an intermixture of the productions of Florida and Venezuela, they differ widely from both these countries, possessing in some groups a degree of speciality only to be found elsewhere in islands far removed from any continent. They consist of two very large islands, Cuba and

Page 552 - catalogued on a uniform plan, and with a uniform nomenclature, a thoroughly satisfactory account of the Geographical Distribution of Animals will not be possible. But more than this is wanted. Many of the most curious relations between animal forms and their habitats, are entirely unnoticed, owing to the productions of the same locality

Page 553 - harmony of nature, and to a fuller comprehension of the complex relations and mutual interdependence, which link together every animal and vegetable form, with the ever-changing earth which supports them, into one grand organic whole.

Page 9 - the South American continent, its long isolation from the rest of the land surface of the globe, and the persistence through countless ages of all the conditions requisite for the development and increase of varied forms of animal life.

Page 81 - probably formed part of Central America, and may have been united with Yucatan and Honduras in one extensive tropical land. But their separation from the continent ; took place at a remote period, and they have since been broken up into numerous islands, which have probably undergone much submergence in recent times. This has led to that poverty of the higher forms of life, combined

Page 342 - islands and sand-banks, and can evidently pass over a few miles of sea with ease; but the Nicobar bird is a very different case, because none of the numerous intervening islands offer a single example of the family. Instead of being a well-marked